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record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bhat: Creator talent agencies face record attrition due to manager envy
“The attrition rate amongst talent management companies is that it's highest it's ever been.”
Prediction Held up
Bhat: YouTube will natively integrate AI lip-synced audio dubbing
“It's going to get built in on YouTube, Nikhil. There's going to be a button where you can select a language and your mouth will move in that language. It's going to come into YouTube. It's going to take forever because YouTube is a slightly slower moving beast…”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bhat: Top 10% of Indian creators earn over $1M yearly from brands
“Branded revenue wise, if you're in the top five, 10% of creators, you can make over a million dollars a year.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bhat: AI will accelerate social media's psychological harms and envy
“Whatever social media did to the next generation's brain, AI will probably accelerate it. And that is kind of worrying, which is I think envy will go through all time high for those who are able to leverage it outside success for a lot more of your peers, whic…”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bhat: AI adoption will create a Darwinian divide with compounding returns
“It's almost going to be Darwinian, like those who choose the site to use it, it's that the results are going to be compoundingly higher.”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Tanmay Bhat: YouTube will dominate the podcast market
“YouTube is launching YouTube Learn, by the way. And YouTube podcasts also. They're gonna eat podcasts.”
Assertion Partly supported
Bhat: 94% of all retail traders lose money
“My question is 94% of all traders lose money.”
Assertion Supported
Bhat: 'Influencer' is the top career aspiration for kids today
“The number one occupation for that people why for today, especially kids is influencer.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bhat: Social algorithms recommend videos to the mentioned subject's followers
“What the algorithm is doing is the algorithm is recognizing that this person is talking about this person, so the video automatically starts getting recommended to people who follow this person. This happens on YouTube all the time. It starts happening on Inst…”
Assertion Supported
Bhat: All members of comedy group AIB met through Twitter
“All actually everybody at AIB met through Twitter. Yeah. In fact, a lot of comedians were born on Twitter by making jokes.”
Assertion Supported
Bhat: YouTube CPMs are sub-$2 in India vs. up to $20 in the US
“In India, the CPMs, yeah, in India, the CPMs are way lower... Like India is sub two dollars. But in America, and I think in the Scandinavian countries, it's like, 10, 12 in some cases, 20 dollars, depending on the niche you're in.”
Assertion Partly supported
Tanmay Bhat: Most expensive CS:GO skin sells for around $800,000
“So the most expensive skin currently is going for some 800,000 dollars, which is nothing but a spray on a gun.”